Asking YouTubers Who Their Favorite Classical Composer Is at VidCon 2017 + Channel Update

I asked YouTubers who their favorite Classical Composer was at VidCon in a straw poll, and there was a big variety in the answers!

Featured channels:

Featured music:
Felix Mendelssohn - “I Waited For The Lord”
Sergi Rachmaninoff - “Piano Concerto No. 2”
Skyrim Main Theme - “Dragonborn” Cover by TayZonday
Gustav Holst - “Mars” from The Planets Suite
Niccolò Paganini - “La Campanella”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - “Marriage of Figaro” Cover by MysteryGuitarMan
Charles Ives - “Piano Concerto No. 2”
Edgard Varèse - “Poème Electronique”
Philip Glass - “Metamorphosis”
J.S. Bach - “Prelude in C Major”
J.S. Bach - “Prelude in B minor”

Thanks to Drew Niderost for being the cameraman for the VidCon interviews!

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[aSongScout]

Thanks for watching! A lot of the YouTubers in this video have been some of my favorite channels for years, so it was super cool to get to meet them. Check out their channel links in the description, and also the links to the classical music that was featured if any of the pieces sounded interesting to you!

[mikeacord]

Bonus: You posted this video on Mozart's birthday! 262 years old!

[OkCatholics]

Holy Cow! You got David Brown in there! I love that some people switched it up with Mendelssohn and Holst!!! And Tommy Edison!!

But no mentions of Debussy or Strauss? No Haydn? No Arvo Part? Buxtehude? NO TCHAIKOVSKY? We need to educate more people about the Baroque/Classical/Romantic period in music! So much beauty is out there.

Although if you asked me I probably would have said Erik Satie (though he is technically avant-garde) because I love his stuff.

Glad to hear you're coming back!

[torsora]

My top 1 composer is shared by 3 guys: Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Schubert, I cannot just pick one 😆

[garnettraypaul]

A pure youtuber you are... It is so amazing to see how you genuinely feel contented and almost blessed You brought me so back to the times where members found producing quality content more important than becoming "trendy".

[kimberlystratton]

Thank you soooo much for showing us the musically 'odd' and fascinating ways music can be associated with. I just subscribed and will be an avid fan or your videos as long as you put them out. Thanks you sooo so much.
**my favorite composer is Claude DeBussy; 'Clair De Lune', 'Girl With The Flaxen Hair' and all his others. Those compositions touch my heart deeper than anything music has.
My mom was a Hungarian immigrant and from the bowels of poverty and social alienation she 'found' him. I guess my mom and i have similar hearts. She was born 4 yrs before his death in 1918 and died 63 yrs later while listening to Clair De Lune...

[CamsCreations]

Excited to see what you create this year dude!!

[adventuresinthegreatmyster]

Loved your description of Bach and harpsichord, as well as clips and descriptions of lots of different styles. Fun to see MysteryGuitarMan -- that brought back memories!!!

[titopaul]

I just watched this video again! I love how it is edited and all the work you put into it. I also enjoyed and agree with your comments at the end. I believe this could be your best year ever! I am glad to see elsewhere that you recently started a Patreon account. I will be a proud supporter.

[deepthinking]

Guy on the street: who are your 3 top classical composers

Me:
Chopin number 1
Mozart number 1
Beethoven number 1
Those are my top number 1.

[QuintonReviews]

Ahhh! A blast from the past. So funny that you made a video about this, given that we met at VidCon. Are you going to the 2018 event? I plan to, and I hope to see you there! :)

[bean]

i'm actually here bc of the old old jacksfilms videos even though i only started following like a year ago?? good content dude.

[pon]

I've always wanted someone to ask me this question, and I think I'd go with Dvorak. I got to do an hour long presentation on him and his music when I was in school and I just found his history and musical style so interesting and beautiful to me and I grew really attached to his music.
I love your videos and I can't wait to see what you have coming out for the rest of the year! :)

[piersjholden]

46 PRELUDE AND FUGES!!!! (It's 48)

[clarkebynum]

The real reason us piano students hated bach is because he is so God damn hard and the months you spend working on a piece will never get you laid quite like a liszt etude will even though the bach is far more difficult

[benniilsen]

This was super interesting! Nice job. Looking forward to seeing more from you.

[MassiveBridge]

You're right, just now noticed that you hit 50K.... Anyway, I just now got back from auditioning for a very tough Honor band, All State, to find that you uploaded a video about Classical Music.... I love classical music, just a bit disappointing Chopin, or Franz Liszt wasn't mentioned much, hehe. I found it very interesting to see what other youtubers thought about Classical composers. I really valued what TayZonday had to say! Great video, and thanks for all of the links in the description!

[Joggelschorsch]

Great one, blew me away :) feel like the big romanticism guys are missing out, brahms Mahler etc

[sydney]

My favorite is Aaron Copland.... I know he isn't classical in the classical sense, but he's my favorite.

[thereyougoagain]

I know it’s cliche, but my favorite composer is also Bach. His music is so complex and interesting to listen to, and fun to play, in my opinion.